‘Reliance Fresh’ sales outdated cake, sued
Bengaluru: A consumer court has penalized Rs. 10,090 to a Reliance Fresh outlet for selling an outdated cake in Bengaluru.
R Jayachandran, a resident of Ulsoor here, went for shopping at a Reliance Fresh store located in Indira Nagar second stage on April 18, 2016. He picked up cake packets worth Rs. 90, along with other items. According to Jayachandran, his son suffered food poisoning after consuming the cakes. It cost him a few thousands when the boy was taken to a doctor.
When Jayachandran checked the expiry date on the cake packets, he found that the products had expired on March 10, 2016. He wrote a letter to the outlet’s manager, but received no response. Jayachandran, then knocked the Bangaluru 1st Additional District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum and lodged a complaint on May 12, 2016.
The consumer forum sued Reliance for selling a food item past its expiry date. On July 10, the forum ruled in favour of Jayachandran and ordered the store manager of Reliance to pay Rs. 5000 for causing him inconvenience and refund Rs. 90. The court further ordered Reliance Fresh to pay an additional Rs. 5000 for the customer court expenses.
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Two arrested in K'taka for assaulting minors, uploading CSAM content
Bengaluru (PTI): Two men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor girls, recording the acts on mobile phones and uploading the videos online as child sexual abuse material, police said on Thursday.
The accused have been identified as Kiran Kumar (29), hailing from Chitradurga district, and Aditya M K (20), hailing from Shivamogga district, they said.
A probe was initiated after information was received from the NCRP portal regarding a suspected instance of creation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for online dissemination, police said.
Accordingly, a case was registered at Kaggalipura Police Station under relevant sections of the IT Act on May 10, they added.
Investigation revealed that two minor girl victims were exploited and videos were created and uploaded to the internet. The child victims have subsequently recorded their statements as per procedure and further necessary legal steps have been taken, Pronab Mohanty Director General of Police, Cyber Command, said in a statement.
Based on the statements of the victims, the accused persons, who allegedly assaulted the minors, recorded the acts on mobile phones and uploaded the videos online, were arrested, he said.
Following the probe, sections 65(2) (rape) and 70 (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant sections of the POCSO Act, have been added to the FIR, police said.
Officials collected relevant information and on May 12, arrested the accused persons and seized three mobile phones belonging to them, in which the videos had allegedly been recorded, he said.
The accused were later produced before the court and taken into police custody for further investigation, he added.
According to him, in CSAM cases, police usually apprehend offenders who have downloaded such content or have kept them in their possession after obtaining them from elsewhere, usually the internet.
"The present case is one of the very few instances where content creators and uploaders have been apprehended," Mohanty added.
